Autobiografické žánre v rusistických výskumoch
Autobiographical Genres in Russian Studies

Summary/Abstract: In the 2nd half of the 20th century, in the Russian literary studies the phenomena of the rise of autobiographal writing lead to the renaissance of scholarly interest in genres marked today as autobiographical. The works of L. Ginzburg, J. Lotman and A. G. Tatarkovsky from the 1970 - 1980 offer inspirative sources for today research. Intensive interest of the Russian literary studies in autobiographical genres, in many ways depending on increased reflection of theoretical works of western researchers, is symptomatic mainly for the last two decades. It is clearly reflected in the amount of published studies in scholarly journals and miscellanies, as well as a number of monographs; as an example the book of O. G. Egorov (2003) can be mentioned, which brings a compendious view on diaries of writers and artists in the 19th century, and at the same time offers a complex typology of material presented from various viewpoints (from the point of view of traditional categories of literary studies, analytical psychology and other), or the book of E. E. Prikazchikova (2006) providing orientation in the rich and heterogenous material of the given period and predominantly focused on the question of genre evolution and contextual determinants of the analysed texts; the monograph of I. Savkina (2007) devoted to women´s autobiographical texts reflected in a wide context of theoretical concepts of gender studies, and theories of autobiographism, predominantly of western researchers, etc.

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